About the team
At Thales Netherlands, procured parts play a key role in delivering our innovative customer solutions. Our procurement team consists of around 60 colleagues, handling an average spend of €500M per year—partly within the Thales Group. For our site in Hengelo, we are seeking a Procurement Project Manager (ProcPM) to join our dynamic team.
About your future job
As a Procurement Project Manager, you will be the driving force behind procurement strategy within Thales Hengelo's bids, projects, and product development.
- Represent procurement across all bid and project stages, managing purchased components, leading acquisition planning, and contributing to make-or-buy decisions.
- Challenge technical solutions through Design for Cost (DfX) and value engineering to maximize cost efficiency and deliver competitive offers.
- Develop and execute mid-term procurement strategies for naval products, creating and maintaining acquisition plans that address risks, objectives, and future targets.
- Build early supplier collaboration, identify market innovations, and integrate procurement insight into the design process to ensure manufacturability and cost-effectiveness.
- Monitor and report on project progress, working closely with Segment/Family Procurement Officers and reporting to the Team Lead ProcPM SRA.
Why you'd be a good match
- 3–7 years of combined engineering/program management and procurement experience, preferably in an international environment.
- Experience in value engineering, design-to-cost methodologies, and program management.
- Strategic thinker, able to develop and execute sourcing strategies aligned with procurement and business goals, and comfortable assessing and managing risks.
- Excellent communicator, relationship-builder, and team connector—internally and externally.
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, facilitating strong procurement governance and performance
- Fluent in English.
What's in it for you
- A challenging job in a great team within our high-tech, innovative work environment. Includes the freedom for initiative and good ideas.
- Room for personal and professional growth within our organization, for example in regards to technical, commercial or international skills.
- Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 68 different countries around the globe.
- A comfortable work space in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance.
- You can usually work where and when you want to be able to do your work as well and efficiently as possible. Within Thales we implement hybrid working, where you can, for example, work from home two days a week if your role allows it.
- A good salary, fitting travel allowance, and the ability to personalize your employment conditions: for instance, you can trade days off for internet costs, our bicycle plan, company fitness and relocation costs.
- 40 days off per year (PTO). Yes, really.
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Interested?
Reach out for more information to our Talent Acquisition Partner Gerlof Jan Heck, via [email protected].
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Skills Required
- 3-7 years of combined engineering/program management and procurement experience
- Experience in value engineering and design-to-cost methodologies
- Fluent in English
Thales Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thales and has not been reviewed or approved by Thales.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer contributions and matches, profit sharing, and share purchase opportunities are emphasized across multiple regions. These elements are positioned as competitive components of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO that increases with tenure, paid holidays, and paid military, maternity, and paternity leave are described. This breadth supports work–life balance across locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid work options, flexible schedules, and parental supports such as childcare benefits and leave for sick children are available in several markets. Flexibility is presented as a core part of the employee experience.
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What We Do
Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers – businesses, organisations and states – in the defence, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
